Prints and Drawings

Prints and Drawings

Ahmanson Building, Level 3

The collection comprises about thirty thousand works from Western European and America, ranging from some of the earliest examples of printing, in the fifteenth century, to contemporary graphics; and with a special emphasis on Southern California artworks since 1960. Highlights include works by Dürer, Rembrandt, and Goya; Delacroix, Manet, and Toulouse-Lautrec; and Matisse, Picasso, and the Americans John Marin, John Sloan, and Edward Hopper. Works not on view may be viewed by appointment.

For Pablo Picasso, la corrida (or bullfight) was a lifelong passion, from his childhood in Málaga to his late years in the South of France. The subject—with its bullfighters, bulls, and horses—pervades his work in all media through every stage of his career…

Velvet, fur, satin, metalwork, hair, water, and stone. These are just some of the distinct surface textures that our eyes convince us we can “feel” as we look at mezzotints. Derived from the Italian mezza tinta (“halftone”), mezzotint is an intaglio process that developed in the 17th century in the Netherlands. It is the only printmaking technique that works from dark to light…